Florida Hansons

Saturday, December 31, 2011

Christmas Vacation in Utah

On the plane to Utah

With the kids and grandkids

Parker and Conner love to entertain Ronan and Brinley.

Love this picture of Ronan

Having lunch at Red Robin.

Christmas morning.

Poor Parker, we ordered this game he wanted on Amazon but it was missing some pieces so we had to return it.

Ronan having fun with all the stuffed animals.

She is cute in her Christmas dress.

I love all the Christmas mess, it is awesome!! Everyone getting their presents and just happy!!

The boys with their gift from grandma Hanson, Beverly made these card holders they are awesome!

matching hats.

The family together for Brad and Shari's baby Aleksander's blessing.

Brad and Shari's cute family.

Eating at Zupas

Handsome boys!

I love how Brinley is looking at Parker.

Cute!

Ice Sculpture

We did not get to see a snowfall but we went to Sundance to play for a little while

We ran into our friends the Pokipala family from our Hunters Creek Ward here in Orlando

Having dinner at the Peruvian Chinese restaurant owned by Brent's old missionary companion Eddy Morillo and his wife Doris.

David Powell, Eddy Morillo, and Brent, they all served together in Peru

Playing at the LDS Church History Museum

Brinley playing

Visiting Temple Square, I love to take pictures of the SL temple

Mike and Kathy Lewis, they were in our old Hunters Creek Ward here in Orlando. She was telling me that it has been 12 years since they moved back to Utah, time goes by too fast.

Our family.

Ashley's 26th Birthday!!! Happy Birthday!!!

She made this wonderful chocolate cake with coconut frosting, yum!

A picture with grandma and grandpa before leaving. Conner had a hard time leaving, he wanted to stay and play with his cousins.

Friday, December 23, 2011

Brent's uncle Reed and aunt Etta came to visit. Their daughter Esther and her husband John and their kids, Jane, John, Jared and Ethan came too. Also Reed's daughter Rebekah came too. We hardly ever saw them because they went to the parks everyday and these pictures were taken one rare morning when they were here for just a few minutes. Conner was happy to play even for just a few minutes.

Jane (she is 7) did not want her picture taken so this was taken without her knowing!!

The kids looking at Pokemon cards. Conner and Jared (he is 9)

John he is 6.

Ethan he is 5.

Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Cream Puffs

Becky here is the recipe for Cream Puffs. It looks complicated, but it is actually simple.

1 cup of water
1/2 cup butter or margarine
1 cup all purpose-flour
4 eggs
vanilla cream pudding

Vanilla cream pudding:
35 ounces jell-o pudding
2 cups half-and-half
just mix together like it was regular pudding. Will set and be thick enough to fill the puffs.

Heat oven to 400 degrees. Heat water and butter to rolling boil. Stir vigorously over low heat, about one minute or until mixture forms a ball. Remove from heat. Beat in eggs, all at one time; continue beating until smooth. Drop dough by scant 1/4 cupfuls 3 inches apart onto ungreased baking sheet. Bake 35 to 40 minutes or until puffed and golden (if it looks like they will be overcooked put a sheet of aluminum foil over them, usually when there is about 15 minutes left of cooking, so that they don't burn). Cool away from draft. Cut off tops. Pull away any filaments of soft dough. Carefully fill puffs with vanilla cream pudding. Replace tops, dust with confectioners' sugar. Refrigerate until serving time. Makes 12 puffs.